Ziggurat @ Ziggurat @sh.itjust.works

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Define ancient Many large building will last for millenia. If we still use roman theatre and medieval palace/church we may keep using large building (provided we can keep the lift working)

A big part of the physicist job is to know which factor aren't relevant in a simulation. You may have heard about approximation like sin(\theta) = \theta or let's assume a Gaussian distribution

it's relatively easy to compute the noise of a flat surface falling over a flat surface at a given speed. However, the more factor you add, the more complex is the problem. A good thing is that for a simple phenomenon like that, you'd get something close from real-work even with some approximations. It's more complicated for example for more "chaotic process" for example once a dice bounced-roll a few time, small difference in the exact position at the first bounce will lead to a different result, making very hard to do a proper simulation

And actually, nukes are part of the reasons we won't do much. Not only western nations aren't keen to send their kids dying in Ukraine. But Russia has nuke. A nuclear power engaging an offensive inside the territory of another nuclear power is a big risk of nuclear escalation. Remember the missile crisis in Cuba ? US officers considered a preemptive nuclear strike.

Nuclear power fight each other by proxy. See how NATO provide weapon to Ukraine, or how Wagner mercenaries attacked french troops in Africa.

There is also a shit load of pro athlete who died quite young. There is no evidence that they used drugs on their time, but dying at 40 is like a clue

For the fun fact, shockwave do propagate in the interstellarmedium. Most likely a conventionnal nuke isn't big enough, but we can see the shockwave from supernova explosion, and voyager did measure the moment it left the sun one.

Radiation may be another beast with a well designed bomb, it's pretty hard to stop neutrons, and they do a lot of biological damage. However, radiation poisoning isn't an instant dead. Like shoot a nuke, leave. Come back 2 weeks latter and everyone is dying. Radiation could definitely damage electronic but I would assume spaceship designer worked properly, and the humam will be poisonned before the electronic starts to fail. A note though. The 1/r^2 law would still apply and space is huge. Being 1km out of the explosion divides the dose by 100 compared to being 100m away. 10 km away would divide the dose by 10 000. So the death radius won't be that big.

Eat less, that's more efficient than exercise to loose fat.

List sport you'd like to do, and have a talk with your doctor about the best one for you. Even if it's a niche sport, a short google search should give them a rough idea (also most federation publish detailed information for doctor about which pathology are OK and which aren't)

It's worth checking the checksum when downloading a file on the internet. Moreover, every time you don't download from the official site, you may get some extra "spyware" tons of company basically live out of distributing bloated version of free software with commercial addons collecting some data or showing some ads.

But using tor doesn't make it more dangerous than not using it (it would be an extra safetly layer)

I am even surprised that the Taliban let someone buy the queer.af domain.

But it's also a cool feature of the federation, an instance is closed by an authoritarian government, tons of others are still there, and migration is easy, so you don't loose you whole network. Still an annoyance for the user, but not as much an annoyance as when a centralized social media closes.

I was more thinking about the campaign.

Quite worried that on my youth I was playing video game about the war in Ukraine which is real today. Looks like political sciences major knew about that upcoming war for decades.

Do you have example of right winged posts on Lemmy. ?

I sometimes have the impression that the Fediverse political diversity goes from Soft social-democrat who are ready to make a deal with liberals, like accepting that billionaire can own companies if union are powerful enough to hard-liner Marxist who thing that we should nationalize the mean of production, jails the billionaire, and implement a maximum salary, and that the political debate is more We all agree that Climate change, social issues and societal issues are important However, in a democratic system we cannot do everything at the same time so by which one do we start ?

But basically, It's hard to find, Liberals supporting free market, and thinking that Von der Leyen manages the EU properly. If you remove a few tankies who think that Putin, Orbàn, and Erdogan are nice guys, there isn't much support for right wing government and policies. I am glad to not have all the right winger from reddit, but feel like it's a bit too skewed.

Can you run locally ? Unfortunately, I feel like next year it won't be a thing for commoners, Stable diffusion 1.5 works well with a gaming GPU, but feel like that XL requires a high-end GPU even by today's standard, and I guess that next versions will requires professional grade workstation with multiple GPU. If 1.5 is fine, run it at home.

Online, I use getimg.ai, the main reason is that it runs XL and I can buy credit packgare rather than a monthly subscription

Still online, Bing image creator includes DALL-E 3 and has some free generation each days

I heard good thing about vast.ai a GPU rental service, but I haven't tried it yet. Unlike the others it's more "rent a PC to generate images rather than an online generator"

Generated a lot of images, and in the end, I selected one of the first ones

Model Reproduction v3.31

Prompt One (cute) catgirl, white school uniform dress, pink socks, holds a (bloody knife), narcissist smile, psychopat look, freckles, blood stain, in a pet graveyard, moon in the background tim burton style, kawaii, gore

Negative low quality, extra-limbs, nsfw,

Sampler DPM-Solver ++

Bonus, my second favourite image Unfortunately the blood is too pink IMO, and too many cats, but quite nice too

I know that peertuble can manage quasi life stream. I remember seeing on Mastodon some person trying and reaching 1000 viewer with less than 30 seconds delay

I'd be careful with the plagiarism argument. People uploaded content to Meta/reddit and tons of other where the use term allow them to make commercial usage of the content you uploaded and it's derivative. Not sure whether these use terms have been challenged in court but Meta and others has a massive database of image they can use to train their AI and reuse commercially. Artists knew it was going to happen when they started to post content on insta.

We do still have an issue though being able to generate Sailor Moon or the Simpson means they have copyrighted data in their training dataset, and it's a serious risk for free/libre model (while Meta is big enough to tell Toei animation to fuck off.)

But none for thread reply notification :

I haven't found the proper setting to manage the notifications :(

Feel like the *bin and the *key have a lot of cool features, but way too many forks to have a understandable product. It's pitty

I thought this was already the norm in France.

I am not that old, but the only school I knew with uniform was the all girl catholic school in my french hometown. And I believe a few years back, even them stopped having an uniform (and even merged some classes -for the older students- with the "all boy catholic source which never had an uniform").

So until the experiment to be started in public school, it was very rare in France

On dit aussi beaucoup une capacité ou simplement une capa Pas sur si c'est un angliscisme ou une norme qui évolué

We also say capacité, or simply capa, I am not sure whether it's borrowed from English, or whether the official terminology evolved

It's a dual edged sword, everybody can look for vulnerability, it may-help some pirates, but it also means that everyone can volunteer to fix-it. To my understanding, professional security auditor concluded that (at least for big free projects) open-source is safer than closed source because more people fix bugs than exploit them